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Which incentivized human persuaders? Are we talking about top salespeople and litigators, or are we talking about average college freshmen? It says they recru
by kragen 1y ago
Which incentivized human persuaders? Are we talking about top salespeople and litigators, or are we talking about average college freshmen?
It says they recruited participants from the US through Prolific and paid them £10.12 per hour, so probably more like the latter.
- lordofgibbons 1y agoDoes it matter? the difference is only 6 months of LLM progress.
- kragen 1y agoIt matters if studies like this matter, that is, it matters to people who are interested in what has currently happened rather than what might happen in the future. 6 months of LLM progress keeps not looking like what I expected. On the other hand, if you're content with your pre-existing predictions about what would happen, which I think is actually a reasonable position, there's no reason to read the paper.
- fzzzy 1y agoIs progress faster or slower than you expected?
- kragen 1y agoAn astounding amount of both.
- fzzzy 1y agoThat makes sense. Progress does seem very lumpy. Commercialization and secrets means that what we see publicly may not be state of the art. And I certainly never thought that Zuckerberg would be the one providing open model weights. It's a strange new world.